BARNARD
King Charles I of then Protestant England married Henrietta Maria, a Catholic princess of France. The marriage agreement allowed her to keep and practice her Catholic faith. This did not sit well with all in England, and despite the Queen's royal personage some attacks by powerful clergy were blatant like this quotation, After Barbard made this statement he was questioned by a high commission and after an apology was set free.
Barnard is a rare Irish surname, and is the Anglicized form of Ó Bearnáin. It is also a more commonly found Norman French form of the French surname Bernard, and was first brought to England and Scotland after the Norman Conquest.The name ultimately derived from the Germanic personal name Bernhard from the element bern "bear" combined with hard "brave, hardy".
